It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade, old landmarks crumble and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.

Oklahoma Democrats Have A Super Option In Tomorrow’s Election

They’re calling tomorrow’s presidential primaries Super Tuesday, but for Democratic voters in most of the states, there isn’t much that’s super about it. Democrats don’t have a choice in the presidential contest, because, in spite of Barack Obama’s shocking lurch into right wing politics on many issues, no prominent Democrat had the guts to stand up and challenge Obama to do better.

There’s one state in tomorrow’s elections, however, where progressive Democratic voters have a choice. That state is Oklahoma.

In Oklahoma, voters have the opportunity to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Darcy Richardson instead of Barack Obama. Richardson is running for President as a progressive candidate, promoting the policies that Democratic voters support, the policies that Barack Obama has abandoned.

Darcy Richardson does not have any illusions about his chances for victory. He explained in an interview earlier this year, “President Obama will almost certainly be the Democratic nominee. I have absolutely no chance of defeating him in the primaries. In fact, one will probably need a magnifying glass to read my vote totals, as was the case in New Hampshire last week. The whole point of my candidacy is to give disaffected Democrats an opportunity to register a protest against the President, to gently nudge him to the left.”

5 comments to Oklahoma Democrats Have A Super Option In Tomorrow’s Election

Richardson, Stein, Anderson, even Johnson were so close in their positions that they could have been in a run-off or primary arrangement so that only one of them would have been on the ballot as an alternative to the two (really one) major parties. Sad. Won’t Stein (at least) be on the Oklahoma ballot too?

Four candidates other than Obama won a total of 43% of the vote in Oklahoma! That’s on average about 10.75% per candidate, but Randall Terry won 18% of the vote! That leaves 25% divided by the other three candidates who each failed to get 15% of the vote (the threshold for delegates), averaging 8.333…% each!

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